Quote by Archie Shepp
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existen

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. – Archie Shepp

Other quotes by Archie Shepp

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. – Archie Shepp

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Music
category

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. – Paul McCartney

Category:
Music

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. – Leigh Hunt

Category:
Music

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. – Sebastian Bach

Category:
Music

I love to make music and stay grounded. – Annie Lennox

Category:
Music

Random Quotes

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz

Category:
History

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it. – Tracy Morgan

Category:
dad

I dont believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front. – Mel Brooks

Category:
Business

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower. – Audre Lorde

Category:
Failure